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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 09.01.2013

10,79€

Preis Update 07.05.24

Spielen Sie Droid Assault und erleben Sie beeindruckende Kämpfe mit Massen von wütenden Killerrobotern!

Entdecken Sie einen einzigartigen taktischen Shooter mit dem abhängig machenden Gameplay von 8-Bit-Klassikern. Benutzen Sie Ihren Verstand und die Hilfe von Ihrem eigenem Droiden-Squad, um in diesem schnellen Retro-Actionfest zu überleben. Richten Sie in 50 stimmungsvollen Leveln mit zerstörbarer Umgebung großes Chaos an. Weichen Sie Minen und Geschützen aus und kämpfen Sie gegen 48 verschiedene Typen von Robotern. Vom schwachen Wachroboter bis zu den neuesten Assassinenrobotern, Special Ops und Kampfdroiden ist alles dabei.

Mit der Hilfe Ihres verlässlichen Transportstrahls können Sie Ihr eigenes Squad von Droiden rufen, ausgestattet mit der neuesten Hightech-Ausrüstung wie Laser, Raketen, Granaten, Flammenwerfern und Störsendern. Steigern Sie Ihre Fähigkeiten mit 17 verschiedenen Arten von Verbesserungen und kämpfen Sie gemeinsam gegen die gefürchteten Riesenroboter.

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211 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.01.16 16:02

Kurzweiliger Top-Down Shooter, mit angenehmer Grafik und relativ süchtigmachenden Spielprinzip.
Nette Mischung aus Präzisionsvermögen und Taktik.
Wenn's günstig ist, gerne zugreifen sofern man aufs Genre steht.

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166 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.05.14 15:35

Ein kleines nettes Game im 8Bit Style.
Es ist simpel (Rumrennen, gegner zerstören,nächstes LVL) gehalten aber macht echt laune.

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Verfasst: 21.02.14 21:32

Das Spiel macht Spaß und Strategie.

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Verfasst: 31.12.13 20:57

Ein sehr schöner Paradroid-Clone

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Verfasst: 02.12.21 20:19

Awesome little top down shooter game about leading a small army of robots around clearing enemy ships out. There's a good variety to the robots you can capture each with different stats. It's simple but fun, getting a bit more challenging towards the end of it. There's a long enough campaign mode for the price and definitely worth playing!

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851 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.08.20 20:16

It's great fun but dying on the late levels makes the continue mechanic useless since you're respawned really weak and have close to no chance of succeeding.

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Verfasst: 24.12.19 17:59

Droid Assault is an wonderful game if you are in to old school arcades with cool sound track and amazing art style.

Puppygames did really great job on this one, the other games are incredible too. Highly recommend.

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Verfasst: 27.11.14 03:29

The Short and Sweet

Droid Assault is a top-down shooter that can often feel like it’s a bullet hell. Players take control of enemy robots, which wildly differ in shape, size, power and speed, and attempt to use them to complete a series of levels that seem to go on forever, but effectively cap out at 51. This is where the checkpoints end, and anything past this is solely for the sake of racking up a higher score or harder gameplay.

Staying true to its origins as an old-school game (This was made in 2008, by the way), Droid Assault has nearly no story to speak of, and dives straight into the gameplay without a moment’s notice. You are provided with transfer points, which take control of other robots and turn them to your side; this is the main method of arming yourself against your enemy. More powerful robots require more points to take over, and the game ends when all of your brainwashed robots have been destroyed.

This simple gameplay design belies the truly chaotic and fast-paced nature of the game itself, as players must rapidly dodge bullets and grenades from potentially twenty or more enemy robots at the same time, all of which move chaotically and cannot be seen without direct line of sight. The game can become very challenging as early as Level 25, with checkpoints reaching all the way to Level 51, and there are even more levels that stretch beyond that. Droid Assault is no easy game to master.

Pros

Hyper-paced gameplay leads to many exhilarating moments and is great for a quick rush of adrenaline.
The large variety in droid types allows for a different experience on every playthrough.
The solid retro-arcade styled visuals give it a personality and make the experience fairly interesting just to look at.
Can be played with a friend using Remote Play Together for co-op.
Possesses a good handful of enjoyable achievements, none of which are insanely difficult.

Cons

The game is rather short, even though it could potentially be infinite. While checkpoints do reach all the way to Level 51, and it is quite a challenge to get there, once you’ve reached that point there isn’t anything left to do.
Allied robot AI is awful, liable to getting itself killed when you aren’t directly controlling it. This usually leads to a player possessing a single, omnipotent robot simply because it was the only one that didn’t die.

Short Conclusion: Recommended
(Might want to wait for a sale)

In-Depth Analysis

Gameplay

Droid Assault dumps a droid in your lap and tells you to start shooting things. Using the power of transfer, you can hijack enemy droids in order to either control them directly, or have them help you as allied AI. Every single droid model you encounter has different specs that make them unique. For example, some are fast, can fly, and possess heavy weapons, but have little armor and low health. Others are slow and heavily armored, with shotguns to deal heavy damage at a limited range. Some simply possess immense amounts of armor but little firepower. There are far too many to list.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146743465

Robots that have been captured via transfer run around the level and attack hostile enemy droids on sight, and while they do help thin the crowd a bit, this is ultimately the most they can accomplish alone. The ally AI doesn’t even attempt to dodge incoming fire, and since some enemy droids are very powerful, these allies normally don’t last very long. This means a player must either accept their fate and invest into a single powerful droid, or constantly capture new droids to replenish the holes left in the group by the old ones.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146744927

Hostile droids also have a chance to drop upgrades on the ground, which can buff a single droid in a few different ways, such as boosting their armor, damage, attack battery, etc. In order to obtain an upgrade, the droid a player is currently controlling must walk over it. This prevents the moronic allied AI from nabbing upgrades and placing them on bad robots, and allows a player to stockpile upgrades onto the robots they like, or more often, the ONE robot they have chosen to play as every single level.

I chose to put every upgrade possible on a Spec Ops droid with a grenade launcher, and by Level 45 I was effectively a tank armed with a fully automatic grenade launcher spewing out ten grenades a second. While this seems incredibly overpowered in concept, there are most certainly enough enemy droids to chip away at you with their relentless offense, and you can’t dodge every bullet. Eventually you will be cornered and taken down without extremely precise movement.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2146744251

Players must decide for themselves which approach they wish to take, whether it be dumping upgrades into a single robot or trying to overwhelm the enemy with numbers.

Story

Droid Assault has no obvious story to speak of, but small bits and pieces of a universe can be obtained from the descriptions of robots, available on the selection menu between levels. It tells of a dystopian future of corruption with the law enforced by innumerable lethal robots. The flavor text is at least minorly interesting, but overall not really relevant to the game experience.

Visuals

The game’s retro feel and design gives it charm where it otherwise might not have any. The high contrast, bright glowing lights and pixelated explosions help it live up to the theme of robots it clearly attempts to go for. Still, the value of this visual style has been somewhat diminished by the fact many indie games have since have copied it (Not Droid Assault specifically, just the pixelated top-down style), and Droid Assault isn’t nearly as unique visually as it was when it came out back in 2008.

Fans of this visual style will still enjoy the look, and Droid Assault was one of the pioneers of the original design.

Audio

Droid Assault has no music other than that of the main menu, but has fairly good sound effects. Grenades and explosions pack some real impact, and every weapon can be audially distinguished from the others, helping the player acknowledge and prepare their evasive maneuver faster.

Many droids have their own little “alert” noise they emit after spotting an enemy, which helps give each type of robot its own identity separate from the others. After playing for a while I’ve learned to fear the sounds the most powerful enemy variants make.

Technical

Specs: GeForce 840m 2GB, 8GB Memory, i7 CPU, Windows 8.1

Droid Assault came out in 2008, and wasn’t even hard to run back then. While there is no option to adjust the resolution, it will still run smoothly at 50fps or more with zero effort.

Conclusion

Droid Assault is an enjoyable top-down shooter that delivers satisfying fast-paced gameplay, along with a pleasant variety of robots to hijack while conquering the levels. Unfortunately, it suffers in some notable areas, with no relevant story, lousy AI, and limited content length & replayability. Still, if you can nab it during a sale, or believe in the “one dollar = one hour of gameplay” formula, it can be a good way to kill some time in the afternoon or during a work break.

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101 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.09.14 12:43

A great mini game with retrocute graphics from Puppygames. Your task is to start out with a small robot and clear enemy ship's levels one by one at same time upgrading yourself by capturing and taking over enemy robots.

The robots vary with speed, armor and armaments and once you have captured an enemy unit, it then follows you assisting you with clearing the rest of the level. You can then easily switch between your robots while AI controls the rest of your group.

Game is very entertaining, easy to hop in and out, while the difficulty level between levels slowly increases. It gives me nice flashbacks from the old Paradroid game in C64, though Droid Assault is much more action oriented and doesn't require careful planning.

It's made by Puppygames - of course I recommend it to everyone.

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103 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.07.14 13:00

Droid Assault is a modern-retro arcade shooter in the typical Puppy Games visual style (other Puppy Games: Titan Attacks, Ultratron).

In this game you can experience running blaster battles with hordes of rampaging killer robots!
The player team can contain up to eight droids at one time. Player control can be quickly transferred to any of the units by hitting the assigned numeric key assigned to the drone, or by launching a transfer beam to a nearby friendly unit. You can hack enemy droids into joining your squad, collect upgrades, choose different droid types and go through the floors, fighting bosses and and and.

The first few levels are pretty quick but get progressively more challenging…

Droid Assault is constructed for players that crave the adrenaline rush of dodging a searing hail of enemy projectiles. Droid Assault is smart, nerve-wracking, and intense. Worthwhile for when you need some minutes of action.

I really like the game but the original price (9,99 €) is not adequate in my eyes. I advise to wait for a coupon or a sale.

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Verfasst: 24.01.14 18:32

Droid Assault is a top down shooter whereby you're a virus capable of hacking and taking control of enemy robots, from this you can produce your very own team of interchangeable robots as you progress through stages and tackle even tougher enemy robots! Initially, it seems like a great idea but unfortunately, it's pretty poorly executed, mainly due to how loose the team management is but otherwise due to how poorly the allied AI perform.

There's many ways this game could be improved, giving the player more control over their team would be a given, making the stats of each robot a little clearer so it's possible to identify the advantages and disadvantages of having them as part of your team as opposed to just hopping system to system blindly hoping for the best would be another, it's also possible to upgrade robots via pickups however they're incredibly vague too, perhaps if it was possible to equip each system individually and change their upgrades?

I'd suggest giving this game a miss and checking out another of Puppygames works, they're definitely great developers and Droid Assault is simply not on par with their other three games.

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Verfasst: 24.12.13 04:07

Wreck enemy droids. Earn 'transfer' points. Use them to transfer droids under your command. Wreck more droids. Yes there's some tactical considerations but those are mainly important when you're injured or spot a healty droid you'd like to steal. Squad management is minimal, but don't let that fool you into thinking the game is mindless, chaotic and dumb. It's mindless, chaotic and fun!

The game is simple and short. Hectic to the point of overwhelming chaos, well designed and presented in a 'puppygames' style that is both charming and epileptic. Or 'just right' though your mileage may vary. I personally enjoyed the audio/visual aspect of the game, though it can be irritating or mind-breakingly confusing. I just like that stuff. Again, your mileage...

Recommended for fans of fast-paced, bullet hell shooters games.

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Verfasst: 03.09.13 21:49

Buy? Maybe. Admitedly, this is my least favorite Puppygames title so far, which isn't to say it's bad at all, just mainly a bit less of my type. A top down action game where You control a droid with WASD and aim with the mouse - left to shoot, right to hack/transfer. The idea is to destroy all enemy droids while keeping your party alive, which is MUCH easier said than done. The game is a bit less about action skill and more about the managment of your droids, as some are faster than others, or have better defense, or have different weapons more suited for a situation. It's fairly easy for your droids to die, but it's also fairly easy to hack other droids if you have enough transfer points. The AI that commands friendly drones is fairly competent at killing enemies, but not so much at staying alive, so there is a constant need to keep them out of harm's way. Things get real challenging with boss battles and danger areas that throw tons of bots at you - I Think it's expected that you will loose some droids, which will unfortunately loose any upgrades they had. A very clever tactical, action game that use simple mechanics that just work. A challenging game, and I think I got to at least level 30 before I died, but I don't think I can improve much on my skill after my team nearly got wiped out the in the previous couple levels. If the idea of the game appeals to you, definitely get it, just realize there is a big challenge ahead of you in the later level (Ironically, the game seems too easy at the beginning).